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The Incas built a notable civilization in western South America in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The center of their empire was in
present-day Cuzco, Peru. Machu Picchu is an ancient fortress city of the
Incas in the Andes Mountains near Cuzco. Built on the steep slopes at
the crest of the Andes Mountains, with terraced scientific and
agricultural areas, Machu Picchu features wonderful, almost jointless
stonework. The Incas were superb craftsmen and thoughtful
On July 7th, 2007, Machu Picchu was voted as one of New Open World
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Darlington 3 Radcliffe Borough 0
A workmanlike performance was enough to secure three points for Darlington as they overcame struggling Radcliffe Borough 3-0 at Heritage Park.
Goals by strikers Nathan Fisher, Ian Ward and David Dowson gave Quakers a victory which strengthened their position in the play-off places.
With four games to go they are 11 points ahead of sixth, though Curzon Ashton effectively sealed the title today when they beat Prescot Cables and a win at Harrogate RA on Monday will secure first position.
Darlington are striving to finish second, though Martin Gray's team was not at its best today while the lowly visitors wasted good chances to cause an upset.
Radcliffe had the ball in the net on 14 minutes, but Brad Robinson's celebrations were cut short due to an offside flag and then Nathan Fisher's sixth league goal of the season put Darlington ahead after Stephen Thompson saw a shot blocked.
The goal fired Quakers into life and by the break they led 2-0 with Ian Ward scoring his second goal in as many starts, heading home from a Terry Galbraith corner.
Substitute David Dowson finished the scoring in the 74th minute, lashing home after a Galbraith pass.
Goals: Fisher (19, 1-0); Ward (34, 2-0), Dowson, (74, 3-0)
Bookings: Brown (36, foul); Carden (90, foul); Tait (90, dissent)
Referee: Thomas Rogers (Houghton-le-Spring)
Attendance: 1,040
Darlington: Bell; Tait, Hunter, Galbraith; Walker, Scott, Brown, A Mitchell (Hopson 66); Thompson; Fisher (Dowson 61), Ward (Purewal 46). Subs (not used): Jameson (gk), White
Radcliffe Borough: Cheetham, Lafferty, Grimshaw, Ayers, Mullineux, Lambert, Sherlock (Landregan 55), White (Carden 55), Burey, Robinson (Manning 80), Rokka. Subs (not used): Thompson, Matupe-Ojo


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General, preventive, and rehabilitative cardiology refers to the initial assessment or diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, the prevention of disease, and the recuperative process following treatment.
Our cardiologists work closely with family medicine and internal medicine physicians to ensure that patients receive the right treatment at the right time. We have offices throughout western Pennsylvania, and each office contains the latest echocardiography and nuclear cardiology equipment for the diagnosis of heart disease. General cardiologists refer patients to our more specialized programs when more advanced and focused treatment is required for the patient's condition.
UPMC Presbyterian care meets patients' individual needs by supporting cardiologists with a team of nurses, nutritionists, social workers, and other health care professionals. All necessary resources are centralized in this location.
UPMC specialists conduct more than 20,000 outpatient cardiology visits per year at the Institute's spacious outpatient cardiology facility in UPMC Presbyterian or at University Center in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh.
People who may benefit from outpatient evaluation include those experiencing one or more of the following symptoms:
Outpatient evaluation also is recommended for anyone over age 40 who wishes to begin an exercise program and may be at high risk for heart disease.
Long-term patients whose progress may be tracked in an outpatient setting include those with congestive heart failure and people with stable angina, high blood pressure, or lipid abnormalities.
Skilled cardiovascular nurses and technicians also provide tailored therapy at home. This approach allows patients to receive a level of care at home that in the past could only be obtained in the hospital setting.
Cardiac rehabilitation patients learn to maintain their fitness through lifestyle changes and a regular exercise program.
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Any comments on or corrections to these translations? The main points of this unit are subjunctives in independent clauses, and indirect questions.
1. Let all citizens in a free state be dutiful and willing to fight for their country.
Omnes in civitati liberae civites non solum pii sint sed etiam pro eorum patria pugnare velint.
2. If only we could always be free from care!
Utinam ab curis semper immunes possimus!
3. All men know why the enemy must be overcome.
Omnes viri sciunt quam ob rem hostes superandi sint.
4. What are we to do in order that we may remain free men?
Faciamus ut liberi maneamus?
5. He might believe that you are all good and honourable men.
Vos omnes viros bonos et honestos esse credat.
6. He explained how the enemy would attack and destroy the fortified walls at Rome.
Quomodo muros munitos Romae hostes oppugnaturi et deleturi essent exposuit.


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The Offline Payments Add-on allows customers to purchase products from your site using check or cash.
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Stocks soar after bailout of Citigroup
The US government's plan to bail out Citigroup sent Wall Street soaring for the second straight session as investors hoped that the worst of the financial industry's problems might finally be over.world Updated: Nov 25, 2008 12:04 IST
The government's plan to bail out Citigroup sent Wall Street soaring on Monday for the second straight session as investors hoped that the worst of the financial industry's problems might finally be over. The Dow Jones industrials surged nearly 400 points, and all the major indexes jumped more than 4.5 percent. The rally gave the market its first two-day advance in three weeks and the Dow its biggest two-day percentage gain since October 1987, the month of the Black Monday crash.
The Dow's 891-point climb over the two sessions also wiped out the 872-point plunge it suffered on Wednesday and Thursday, when investors were anguished over the fate of Citigroup Inc. and financial companies in general, and the future of the nation's automakers.
Although investors sensed late last week that a rescue of Citigroup was forthcoming, they nonetheless were heartened, even emboldened, by the U.S. government's decision late Sunday to invest $20 billion in the company and guarantee $306 billion in risky assets.
Wall Street's enthusiasm grew not only because the bailout answered questions about Citigroup but also because many observers saw the move as offering a model for how the government might stabilize other banks.
"The government has taken a new quill out," said Scott Bleier, founder of market advisory service CreateCapital.com. "They've gone to where they didn't go before in terms of trying to secure the system. Some of that vulnerability seems to be gone now." Still, the market remained wary, especially with the economy in a serious downturn. The Dow was up more than 500 points in the last hour before giving up some of its gains. Many investors wanted to take some money off the table before any bad news arrived. And the market has frequently done sharp reversals since the start of the credit crisis 15 months ago.
The efforts by the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to help stabilize Citigroup are only the latest this year to support a banking system troubled by bad debt and flagging confidence.
Besides its $700 billion bailout plan for the financial industry, the government has bailed out insurance giant American International Group Inc. and taken over lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. "You're definitely seeing relief," said Anthony Conroy, managing director and head trader for BNY ConvergEx Group. "More than anything, the Fed repaired some of the psychological damage that was being done to the sector. I think the Fed is poised to do whatever they possibly can to help the financials get through the current turmoil."
"Not all banks are unhealthy, so knowing that the Fed is there is enough," Conroy said.
The Dow rose 396.97, or 4.93 percent, to 8,443.39. Its last two-day advance was Oct. 30 and 31, along with the rest of the market.
Broader stock indicators also jumped. The Standard & Poor's 500 index advanced 51.78, or 6.47 percent, to 851.81, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 87.67, or 6.33 percent, to 1,472.02. The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 30.25, or 7.44 percent, to 436.79.
Over the course of Friday and Monday, the Dow rose 11.8 percent, while the broader S&P 500 index jumped 13.2 percent. The Nasdaq rose 11.9 percent. Paper gains in U.S. stocks over the two sessions came to $1.2 trillion, according to the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index, which reflects nearly all stocks traded in America. "I think it's a little bit of confidence coming back into the system right now," said Harry Clark, chief executive of Clark Capital Management. He contends the market began to form a bottom after an eight-day selloff that ended Oct. 10, and on Thursday made further headway toward setting a low that could give way to a rally. Bond prices were mixed Monday as investors examined the government's bailout plan for Citigroup. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.33 percent from 3.20 percent late Friday.
The Treasury bill market showed continuing high demand, a sign of investors' caution. The yield on the three-month T-bill, considered one of the safest investments, fell to 0.01 percent from 0.04 percent late Friday.
The dollar was mostly lower against other major currencies, while gold prices rose.
Light, sweet crude rose $4.61 to $54.54 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Stocks briefly came off their highs of the session in the middle of the session, with the Dow paring its gain from 300 points to 200 points, as President-elect Obama formally named his economic team. But Obama didn't offer specifics of an economic-stimulus package nor state that he would push back a plan to raise taxes on the richest Americans. He reiterated his goal of creating 2.5 million jobs during the next two years.
Alan Lancz, director at investment research group LanczGlobal, said that while the market might have wanted a firmer commitment against raising taxes, it was too soon for Obama to outline specifics. Lancz expects the new administration wouldn't rush to implement the hikes if the economy appeared too weak. "There's so many balls in the air right now he'd be foolish to make specific comments," Lancz said, noting that the economic picture could change greatly by Inauguration Day, which is Jan. 20.
Wall Street shrugged off a larger-than-expected drop in sales of existing homes last month as investors instead focus on the government's plans for the financial sector. The housing numbers fell short of expectations, but investors expected sales would fall sharply after last month's upheaval in the financial markets. The National Association of Realtors said sales of existing homes fell 3.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.98 million in October. That's down from 5.14 million in September. The financial sector led Monday's advance, fueled by a sense that the government might be developing a more nuanced yet ready-to-apply remedy for financial firms. Citi surged $2.18, or 58 percent, to $5.95. Bank of America rose $3.12, or 27 percent, to $14.59.
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Grandfathered Plans: To Be or Not to Be?
By Sandra E. Quilty, Baudino Law Group, PLC, Des Moines, IA
Last month, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury issued an anxiously awaited Interim Final Rule on "grandfathered" health plans. 1 The Interim Final Rule ("Rules") was issued on June 14 and published in the June 17 Federal Register. 2 The Rules provide guidance regarding what employers must do to maintain the grandfathered status of their plans as well as what would cause a plan to lose its status. The Rules are effective upon publication and comments are invited and due on or before August 16, 2010.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – also known within the industry as the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") – plans or coverage in existence on the date of enactment are subject to some but not all provisions. 3 The Rules are intended, ultimately, to protect the ability of individuals and businesses to keep their current plan. 4 The Administration estimated that by 2013, health plans covering as few as 39 percent and as many as 69 percent of employees could lose protected status." 5 Consistent with Congress' intent, the Rules seek to strike a balance in preserving one's right to maintain existing coverage, containing costs and improving quality of healthcare coverage. 6
The ACA provides that group health plans in existence on the date of enactment – March 23, 2010 – are considered "grandfathered" and exempt from certain insurance reforms. Despite the many exceptions to some of the burdensome requirements under the new law made for grandfathered plans, however, there is a subset of provisions with which it must comply. Routine changes can be made without the risk of lost status. These changes include cost adjustments to stay pace with medical inflation, increased benefits, minor adjustments to existing benefit packages, adoption of consumer protections, change in third-party administrator, enrollment of new employees or family members of new or current enrollees, and any other changes required by law. Generally, a health plan that significantly decreases benefits and materially increases cost sharing to the extent that it may discourage beneficiaries from seeking needed treatment will lose its grandfathered status.
All plans, regardless of being grandfathered or not, must provide certain benefits for plan years starting September 23, 2010. All plans must: ensure no lifetime limits on coverage; not rescind coverage unless due to fraud; extend parental coverage to adult children 26 years of age; not exclude children for pre-existing conditions; and not have "restricted" annual limits.
The Rules set forth the reasons for which a plan would lose its grandfathered status. The requirements are as follows:
Recognizing that some plans and issuers may have implemented changes since the ACA's enactment, the Interim Final Rule provides transition rules for changes already in process. 10 Essentially, regulators for enforcement purposes may disregard changes made in good-faith compliance prior to the publication of the Rules. 11 Hence, changes adopted prior to release of the Rules that would have resulted in a plan's loss of status will not trigger such loss so long as the changes are revoked in a timely manner. This so-called "grace period" for an employer is only triggered if the plan is modified to remove the changes that would have otherwise rendered it non-compliant before the first plan year beginning after September 23, 2010. As long as the plan is restored to its March 23, 2010 form, the plan will be deemed grandfathered.
Additionally, the Interim Final Rules contain anti-abuse rules to ensure that certain employer-related activities have a "bona-fide employment-based reason" and are not being conducted in order to attempt to maintain grandfathered status. The Rules include two provisions specifically, which are intended to prevent abuse by issuers of grandfathered plans 12 . First, if the principal purpose of a merger and acquisition or any other type of organizational restructuring is to cover new individuals under a grandfathered plan then the plan ceases to be grandfathered. The intention behind this provision is to prevent grandfathered status from being treated as a commodity that can be bought and sold. Second, if an employer makes a change in plan eligibility for purposes of reducing benefits and there is no legitimate employer reason it then loses grandfathered status. The standard for plan issuers to consider is whether the change is occurring due to a "bona fide employment-based reason." 13
The Rules also impose disclosure and recordkeeping requirements in order to maintain grandfathered status. 14 A statement that the plan is believed to be a grandfathered plan must be included in any plan materials provided to participants. Moreover, contact information must be provided to participants for any questions and complaints. Group health plans must maintain records documenting the plan or policy terms in effect on March 23, 2010. Any other documents necessary to verify, explain, or clarify the plan's status must be kept on-hand and made available upon request. Participants, beneficiaries or state or federal officials may request examination of the records. The records shall be kept for as long as the Plan holds itself out as grandfathered. The Rules contain model language that can be used and will satisfy the disclosure requirement.
The Obama Administration has frequently promised that "most of the 133 million Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance through large employers will maintain the coverage they have today". 15 Plan sponsors will need to decide whether to continue offering the grandfathered plan, significantly change the terms of the plan, or to cease offering the plan. Decisions will be significantly affected by the preferences and behaviors of it enrollees. Employers are in a world of considerable uncertainty as the health care landscape evolves to comply with the changes of the ACA. Essentially, an employer considering changes or modifications to its group health plan will need to weigh the importance of maintaining the grandfathered status or allowing it to be forfeited.
75 F.R. at 34560.
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If you have a close relationship with someone who has a substance abuse problem or another mental illness, you are at risk of being codependent. If you've been emotionally or physically abused, you are also at risk.
Codependency is an emotional and behavioral condition. If you are codependent, you may deny your loved one's harmful behavior. You may unknowingly even enable the harmful behavior to maintain the relationship, or to feel needed. Being codependent affects your ability to have a healthy, satisfying relationship.
Q. What's the relationship between dysfunctional families and codependency?
A. A dysfunctional family is one in which members suffer from fear, anger, pain, or shame that's ignored or denied. Underlying problems may include any of the following:
An addiction by a family member to drugs, alcohol, relationships, food, sex, or gambling
A history of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse
A family member who suffers from a chronic mental or physical illness
Codependent family members bury their emotions. They ignore their own needs. They develop ways to cope that help them deny, ignore, or avoid difficult emotions.
As a result, attention and caring is wholly focused on the family member who's ill or addicted. Other family members' needs are ignored.
Q. What's wrong with caring for someone who's abusing alcohol or drugs or has some other problem?
A. Nothing. When someone we care about is in pain, it's normal to try to help make the person's life better.
But, if you're codependent, you feel overly responsible for the troubled person's feelings and behaviors. You may feel rejected or angry when your loved one doesn't accept your help.
As a codependent person, you continue to come to the rescue of the alcoholic or addict. But, by making excuses for that person or bailing him or her out when in trouble, you enable the person's addiction or behavior.
For example, a wife may cover for her alcoholic husband when he can't go to work. A mother may make excuses for a truant child. A father may pull some strings to keep his child from suffering the consequences of delinquent behavior.
You could be in a codependent relationship if you find yourself trying to control others or avoiding rejection at any cost.
Q. How can you tell if you're codependent?
A. You may be codependent if you have:
An exaggerated sense of responsibility for the actions of others
A tendency to do more than your share, all of the time
An extreme need for approval and recognition
A tendency to become hurt when people don't recognize your efforts
A drive to do anything to hold on to a relationship
A sense of guilt when being assertive
A need to control others
A lack of trust in self and/or others
Difficulty identifying feelings
Problems with boundaries
If you see several of these traits in yourself, talk with a mental health provider. Codependency tends to be a learned behavior from families of origin. Treatment is available and can be effective in learning new ways to cope with situations that can feel overwhelming.


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Lee Googe, Me, and Kellie Clements rockin' out to The North Mississippi Allstars at BSMF '12.
It's May. Those two words have magical meaning here in Memphis and we have rightfully earned the status of near-global domination when it comes to fun times in the Bluff City as the moon and Earth spin around each other this time of year. The global part is that we actually honor an international country during the month of May guised under not so international events like Beale Street Music Fest. The biggest party of the year sits magestically in Tom Lee Park overlooking the multi-faceted and churning river. MusicFest is not just one genre as it celebrates Blues, Pop, Hip Hop, Rock, and Electronica — perfect. I don't like it when things get predictable —bo-riiiing. The music mix keeps me interested and this year's rare sunny forecast is going to make it an epic experience. Past events have been so much fun even with torrential hail and tornado evacuations — I love a challenge. So the fact that we are going to have a mild weekend in store seems surreal but I'll take three gorgeous days on the river with friends and great tunes. And for the naysayers who are lamenting about a lame lineup: Hush Your Tails! There's plenty of ear jam going on that will be worth the ticket price and sunshine. I'll be tooling around with my 1970s Nikon FM and the photos, once developed, will be posted next week. I Have No Idea what I'm doing with that tricky little mechanical device, but it feels good in my hands and that camera presents another challenge I'm looking forward to. Those photos will be posted under StyleWatch as my other moniker dedicated to this somewhat hobby: Girl On Film. And as they say in Panama, this year's honored country, "Salud" to the memories old and new at BSMF.
The other more recently glorious aspect to May is the Grizzlies' annual run in the PlayOffs. Who doesn't love the profuse energy spewing from the GrindHouse when there's a potential OT? The fact that our team churns out wins like a pitbull with a porkchop makes the victory ugly but hard-earned and really well appreciated. The Grizz have taught me at least, that winning feels better when it doesn't come easily or prettily. I like the beautiful plays and perfect shots but I also love the sweat and the scratches that come with those executions. Our team is tight and they have a way of making fans feel like they are winning these games Just For Us. Like every time. Cheers to making more tremendous PlayOffs memories in the years to come. A great by product of the PlayOffs is all of the homegrown custom T-shirts that artists are making and fans are snatching up and wearing with total Grizz pride. Head over to Sache, Hoot & Louise, and Baer's Den for yours. I'll be shooting awesome custom Grizz shirts at BSMF too so put your best one on to come boogie on the bluffs. And don't forget your headband.
PlayOffs + Memphis in May = The Best Time Of The Year. It's Grit n Grind ... It's Soul n Shine ... It's Our Time.
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OCEANPORT, N.J. – Rick Shanley's Say a Novena held off the
late charge of Greatful Heir to post a neck victory in the $70,000 Colleen
Stakes at Monmouth Park on Sunday.
Trained by
Eddie Plesa Jr., Say a Novena covered the 5 ½ furlongs over a fast main track
in 1:04 1/5 and returned $10.20, $4 and $2.60.
Greatful Heir, the 8-5 favorite in the field of seven 2-year-old
fillies, completed the $36.40 exacta and paid $3 and $2.60. It was another 3 ½ lengths back to Baffle Me,
who returned $3.60 to show.
"She's a
very fast filly, but she's not uncontrollably fast," said winning jockey Mike
Luzzi. "She gallops out impressively as
well because it's the same as her running, which leads me to believe she wants
to do more. She's willing to do more."
The Colleen
Stakes victory was the second in four starts for Say a Novena, a daughter of
Songandaprayer from the Dynaformer mare Rabiadella. She has now earned $101,250.
Live racing
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Friday Fun with Google Maps
Harry Beck's famous map design for the London Underground must be one of the most copied designs ever. This Under Skin map is a great Human Body Map in the now familiar Harry Beck style.
Google Sightseeing found this giant three headed elephant in the new Thailand Street View imagery.
If you want to break Google Maps try searching for the North Pole. It seems that the Mercator Projection used by Google Maps struggles with the North Pole. If you do want to find the position of the North Pole on Google Maps, you can turn on the Google Earth view.
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By Mike on 04-13-04
Really enjoyed this Audiobook; a good model
I have read the other Cahill books (the Jews, the Irish) and I've been very pleased with this one as an audiobook. The audiobook alternates between recitations from Homer and other epic Greek poets (Sapho, Euripedes), and Cahill's explanatory and contexual material. For an audiobook, this is excellent, since the poetry of Homer really deserves to be heard. As an audiobook format, this is nearly perfect material. This is not a hard core academic treatment; Cahill is very eclectic and undiscplined, sort of the Stephen Ambrose of the ancient world. I'm looking forward to the film 'Troy' in a few months, and this book is good background for the film.
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By Richard on 12-28-03
Super super
This is a really super summary of ancient Greek history. While thoroughly entertaining and educational, it allowed me to put into perspective all the scattered information I had gathered through a lifetime about classical Greece. Finally, I understood the mythology and the Greek writers and philosphers. All the bits of information I had never really understood came together and made enjoyable sense in Cahill's terrific book.
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By Charle on 03-25-04
If Homer and Olive Oil make you think of cartoons
....then this is probably not the book for you.
But for the serious student of any of the liberal arts( philosophy, politics, history, literature, sociology, fine arts, ect.) this is a must read. Another of his series of histories, Cahill has an encyclopedic grasp of the evolution of modern western society. Lively and at times risque, he gives a persuasive arguement for the study of the classics.
It's a good read.
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By Linda on 07-21-12
crossing the void of time
I've always wondered about the Greeks, the ancient world, the ways that humans have lived and interacted. I found this book a very credible interpretation of the distant past, well researched and thoughtfully presented.
Some parts of the book are easier listening than others but I found the listening to for the most part interesting and engaging. It seems to me to be a montage of views into the distant past, views that have enriched my understanding of the ancient world.
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By Niall on 05-07-06
I liked it!
Since I gave such a cranky review of Don't Know Much About Mythology...I need to express my enjoyment of Cahills Sailing the Wine Dark Sea. You know the juicy parts of Greek history you were sure your teacher was not discussing? They were tucked away here in Cahills book. No, I did not find the book enjoyable for it's more salacious chapters. I found it enjoyable because it was written with the passion of someone who really enjoys history and sharing. I thought the reader was pleasant to listen to also.
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By Art Grrrl on 12-12-11
The title: concrete. The approach: not so much.
The author implies in his title that he is going to answer the question: Why do the Greeks matter? And then he doesn't really answer it directly. For that reason, I was disappointed with the book.
In the Introduction, he writes, ". . . I assemble what pieces there are, contrast and compare, and try to remain in their presence . . . and then I try to communicate these sensations to my reader. So you will find in this book no breakthrough discoveries, no cutting edge scholarship, just, if I have succeeded, the feelings and perceptions of another age."
And that is exactly what you get. In my opinion, the worst thing about the book is the title.
That being said . . . he organizes his material in an interesting way: warrior (the illiad), wanderer (the odyssey), poet (other poetry), politician (drama), philosophy, and art & architecture. He begins each section with a myth that he feels embodies the points he wants to illustrate. Then he shows his reader how each artform is a reflection of the ancient greeks and their culture. It's all broadbrush strokes, very impressionistic.
It's a review of everything you already know. It's just a new way of organizing it. I think his quote from the Introduction says it all.
It is very well written, and it is very interesting. I was just looking for something with bullet points. There were no bullet points in this book.
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Can Mad Men break the record and land a record fifth consecutive win? No drama has ever had more than four outstanding series wins in a row, and this year's best drama competition is fierce. Homeland is still a favorite to win, while Breaking Bad ended the first half of its fifth season right as voters were casting their ballots (not a bad time to make a lot of noise). But don't count out Mad Men just yet. "Over the past four years Mad Men has demonstrated that it has solid core support, so it's logical to assume that, even with significant erosion of that core, it can still win," says Gold Derby's Tom O'Neil. But should voters of hot cable dramas split their vote, the one broadcast nominee — PBS' Downton Abbey — could sneak in with a surprise win. "Downton Abbey could easily stage an upset," O'Neil says. "It was a ratings hit cheered by TV critics and, most important of all, it has huge snob appeal."
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kurtjs wrote:HEY-HO everyone. I know it has been while and too much has happened this last month to go into detail. Things are going well, here are some of the key points:
-I graduate with me BS tomm morning (May 23rd)
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-Hopefully this summer I can keep gaining mass and strength. I would love to hit a solid 160 lbs by summer's end. It will be tough cause I eat all day and I'm going to be working a couple of different jobs this summer. Meals will be tough to squeeze in. I'll make do. I'll update lifting soon. I start my new routine June 1st. I go to a conference all next week, so that will be my recovery week.
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While millions of other Americans will be celebrating Independence Day weekend, Rick Warren, often called "America's Pastor," will be serving as the keynote speaker for a Saudi-backed Muslim group that promotes a radical strain of Wahhabi Islam in about 80 percent of U.S. mosques.
I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of Rick Warren's bad judgments.
This time Warren will be schmoozing with the Islamic Society of North America, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood – just as are al-Qaida, Hamas and most other Muslim terrorist organizations.
ISNA puts on a façade of moderation, yet, according to terrorism expert Steven Emerson, it "convenes annual conferences where Islamist militants have been given a platform to incite violence and promote hatred."
After Hamas leader Mousa Marzook was arrested in 1997, ISNA raised money for his defense. He was eventually deported.
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"I think ISNA has been an umbrella, also a promoter of groups that have been involved in terrorism," explains Emerson. "I am not going to accuse the ISNA of being directly involved in terrorism. I will say ISNA has sponsored extremists, racists, people who call for jihadagainst the United States."
I could go on with many more details about ISNA. Suffice it to say it is no friend of Christianity and no friend of America.
So what is Rick Warren doing speaking at the group's national conference?
I don't know what Warren's agenda is. He would probably say he doesn't have one. But I can tell you the effect of his appearance – it is designed to disinfect and rehabilitate a group that is dangerous and subversive to U.S. national security.
But it should surprise no one, at this point, that Rick Warren will be there. One of the first times I ever wrote about Rick Warren was in 2006 when he took an equally misguided trip to Syria to meet with dictator Bashar Assad and praise him for his pleasant treatment of Christians. Syria was then and remains today one of the world's leading state sponsors of Islamic terrorism. Almost every terrorist group in the world maintains offices there. Nevertheless, Rick Warren said, while in Syria, that the country "does not allow extremism of any kind."
Less than a week after Warren's absurd proclamations in Syria, a Christian leader in Lebanon, former President Pierre Gemayel, was assassinated in the streets of Beirut. Everyone in Lebanon knows who killed him – the Syrian government.
As I wrote at the time, "it is imperative that Christians – and especially Christian leaders – have discernment about evil in our world. And true, unadulterated evil is what you have running Syria today. The government led by Bashar Assad, who met with Rick Warren last week, is anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish and pro-terrorist.
"Rick Warren should know this. Yet, he has placed himself in a position of apologizing and excusing the government in Damascus, one of the most evil on the face of the earth.
"It is not an exaggeration to say that government got cover last week as a result of Warren's shameful public relations on its behalf. I won't go so far to say there was a direct cause-and-effect relationship between Warren's embrace of Assad and the assassination of Gemayel yesterday, but it is both a coincidence of striking proportions as well as an illustration of the true character of Damascus' totalitarian police-state regime."
In 2007, Rick Warren was one of 100 or so "evangelical leaders" who signed a document begging forgiveness from Muslims for all the evil deeds perpetrated against them by Christians.
Rick Warren loves to apologize for things he didn't do, for things other people did that weren't wrong, even for things that occurred hundreds of years before he was born – such as apologizing to Muslims worldwide for atrocities committed against their ancestors during the Crusades.
In 2007, he also apologized for American "excesses in the war on terrorism."
And he has apologized for the church because it hasn't done enough about the spread of AIDS and problems like global warming.
Yet, I must observe that despite his predilection for apologies, he has a great deal of trouble owning up to his own personal mistakes.
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Is it permissible to breast-feed a child over 2 years old? Until what age does
breast-feeding make the child a relative (mahram)? Are there any exceptions to this
I am asking because there are many 2 year olds in our area who need families - they need to be "adopted" in the Western sense. I would like to help these children, and expand our ummah, but too avoid hardship, I hope that there is a way that they could become relatives of my son.
Breast-feeding a child over two years old will not have the effect of making him a relative
(mahram). It is permitted to breast-feed one's own child beyond two years, but two years is
enough, as Allah says:
"The mothers shall give suck to their children for two whole years, (that is) for those (parents) who desire to complete the term of suckling . . ."
[al-Baqarah 2:233]
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At last, taking aim at assault weapons
In November 2009, President Obama traveled to the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, to speak at a memorial service for 13 service members shot and killed during a rampage that wounded 29 others.
The president also spoke at a memorial service in January 2011 after a shooting spree outside a supermarket near Tucson, Ariz., that left six people dead and 13 injured, including then-U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords.
Last July he visited Aurora, Colo., to console families, friends and colleagues after 12 people were shot to death and 58 were injured in a movie theater massacre.
On Sunday, when Mr. Obama met with and spoke to mourners in Newtown at an interfaith service for the 20 first-graders and six adults gunned down two days earlier at Sandy Hook Elementary School, he finally acknowledged what should have been addressed years ago: This nation can no longer tolerate such horrific, wanton gun carnage.
"Can we say that we're truly doing enough to give all the children of this country the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose?" the president asked, as many in the audience at Newtown High School wept.
"If we're honest with ourselves, the answer is no," he said. "And we will have to change. What choice do we have? Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?"
President Obama pledged to lead a national effort to help bring about change, and without going into specifics his target was clear: gun control.
Because of the cowardice of lawmakers when threatened by the biggest bully in the political playground, the National Rifle Association, the president and Congress almost never take up gun legislation.
But the unspeakable horror at Newtown has given them cover, and the drumbeat for meaningful reform at last is resonating loudly.
It now seems certain that Congress at the very least will consider the most obvious legislation, a federal ban of so-called assault weapons. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Sunday she would introduce an act to ban these weapons at the start of the next Congress in January, and a number of other lawmakers have pledged to support it.
This is a good sign, but any such law must be more effective than the loophole-ridden legislation passed in 1994, which Congress cravenly allowed to expire in 2004.
We also support the creation of a federal panel that would examine this nation's culture of violence that many believe has contributed to the mayhem.
As for any proposed gun legislation, part of the problem has been defining what constitutes an assault weapon.
As The Washington Post explained this week, there are fully automatic weapons, which fire continuously when the trigger is held down. Those have been strictly regulated since 1934. Then there are semiautomatic weapons that reload automatically but fire only once each time the trigger is depressed. Semiautomatic pistols and rifles come in all shapes and sizes and are extremely common in the United States.
This newspaper believes any such law must first acknowledge that weapons such as the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle Adam Lanza used Friday to rapidly fire multiple, high-velocity rounds inside the elementary school has only one function: to kill a lot of people quickly.
It is not designed to be used for hunting, to ward off burglars, for self-protection or any other purpose the Second Amendment fanatics hide behind when they speciously invoke their Constitutional right to bear arms.
Back in the 1700s the framers of that hallowed document never could imagine such a hideously effective killing machine.
Ordinary civilians aren't allowed to own shoulder-fired missiles and similar military weapons, so there's ample precedent for federal regulation of firearms.
The 1994 ban prohibited ownership of 18 specific firearms, as well as certain military-type features on guns. It also restricted the capacity of magazines to no more than 10 bullets.
But that legislation inserted a grandfather clause that exempted all assault weapons and magazines made before 1994. Therefore, it was legal to buy or sell an estimated 1.5 million assault weapons and more than 24 million high-capacity magazines already manufactured.
Congress must not make the same mistake.
We must hold President Obama to his word, and not allow him or Congress to dodge the bullet this time around.
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Lindsay and Racism
Comment on the critical dismissal of Lindsay as a racist author. Includes republication of Lindsay's enigmatic salute to black American soldiers in World War I, "The Jazz Bird," and comparison of Lindsay's "The Congo" to James Weldon Johnson's "O Black and Unknown Bards" and Countee Cullen's "Heritage."
It is a commonplace assumption among readers of modern poetry that "The Congo" is a fundamentally racist poem, and Lindsay a racist author. These are the conclusions of book reviewer Elizabeth Hardwick, for example, who notes a number of the poem's overtly racist statements in support of the conclusion that "'The Congo' is the supreme folly of Lindsay's foolhardy career" (10). That Lindsay was naive about race relations is certain; that he knew little of African-American life, let alone the African scenes supposedly depicted in "The Congo," is equally so; that he viewed people of color in terms of white projections of otherness is also not to be doubted. But for a variety of reasons we need to consider the racial representation in "The Congo," and Lindsay's race politics, with care rather than dismissal. When "The Congo" and other poems by Lindsay that treated black themes were first published in the 1910s, Lindsay was seen even by his critics to be an ally of blacks. His poetry may seem to veer awkwardly between the notion of racial improvement Bois and a celebration of black culture, but these contradictory impulses informed not only white attitudes toward blacks but also black attitudes toward themselves, as W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes, for example, debated whether the purpose of black literature be "racial uplift" or artistic expression. Lindsay's entry into this debate was fraught with risk, necessarily, as is any white poet's before or since his time, or any white critic's before or since. But the conversation thus begun is necessary, not least for the way shifting perceptions of Lindsay's racial attitudes shed light on the way that racism, like racial categories themselves, are historically conditioned and historically variable.
W. E. B. Du Bois strongly criticized "The Congo"; but Lindsay's story "The Golden-Faced People" had been published in an earlier issue of The Crisis and was hailed by Du Bois himself for its insight into the injustice of racism, so Lindsay does not appear to have been irremediably racist in outlook (Engler 101). Lindsay was in fact widely regarded as a person of liberal and antiracist sympathies (Ward 237), evident not least in Lindsay's famous "discovery" of Langston Hughes as a busboy poet in a Washington, DC, hotel restaurant. The event was misconstrued by Lindsay as an instance of genuine patronage--that, but for Lindsay's intervention, Hughes would have forever languished as a menial laborer--when actually, by the time of the incident in 1925, Hughes had already been published in The Crisis, would win the poetry prize in the Opportunity literary competition of that year, and had had his first book, The Weary Blues, already accepted by Alfred A. Knopf (Hummer 66). It was Hughes himself, not Lindsay, who was the prime mover of his career, right down to the moment in the hotel restaurant when Hughes took the initiative, dropping a sheaf of his poems on Lindsay's table. Yet Lindsay was the right poet for Hughes to seek out, open-minded enough to appreciate the poems: he recited all three of them at his poetry reading that evening and thereupon announced the discovery of a "bona fide poet" (Rampersad 117). And Hughes was happy enough to make use of the publicity served up by Lindsay's naive claim of discovery. The next day he played up the role of the dazzled prodigy for the reporters who hounded him, and upon his return to New York he arranged for an Underwood and Underwood representative to photograph him posing as a busboy (Hummer 66). In turn, the literati associated with Opportunity, always tending to be more open and flexible in their conceptions of artistic expression than their peers at The Crisis, do not appear to have been overly chagrined by Lindsay's rhetoric or purportedly racist poetry, as in 1926 they made Lindsay one of the judges for the magazine's second literary contest and even mentioned The Congo and Other Poems among the accomplishments qualifying him for the role ("Judges").
Furthermore, Lindsay does not appear to have lacked all self-consciousness about the problems of racial representation that "The Congo" raised, as he attempted in the 1920s to distance himself from his famous poem, uncomfortable with the ways that his audience was responding to it and refusing to include it in some of his poetry readings (Ward 238). A poem Lindsay wrote in the spring of 1918 to celebrate the contributions of black Americans to the war effort, initially titled "The Jazz Bird," again reveals Lindsay's idiosyncratic mix of sympathy and seemingly irremediable denseness on matters of racial signification. In extolling the "Jazz Bird" called to arms by the "eagle," Lindsay adopts a lynching metaphor to describe how African Americans will deal with the Kaiser and his host:
The Jazz Bird sings a barnyard song,
A cock-a-doodle bray,
A jingle-bells, a boiler works,
A he-man's roundelay.
The eagle said: "Son Jazz Bird,
I send you out to fight.
And the Jazz Bird spread out his sunflower wings,
And roared with all his might,
And they woke to it in Oregon,
In Florida and Maine
And the land was dark with airships
In the darting Jazz Bird's train.
Crossing the roaring ocean
His bell-mouth shook the sky,
And the Yankees in the trenches
Gave back the hue and cry.
And Europe had not heard the like,
And Germany went down.
The Jazz Bird with the headlight eyes
Tore off the Kaiser's crown
At midnight on a haunted road
A star bends low and sees
The Kaiser and his row of sons
Marching at their ease.
Their necks are broken by the hemp,
They goose-step in a line,
Their stripped bones strutting in the wind
Swinging as a sign
That Jazz Birds come on sunflower wings
When loathsome tyrants rise. . .
The Jazz Bird guards the gallows,
He lights it with his eyes.
Behind the ghosts of the Kaiser and his sons there stands the spectre of lynchings of blacks on the homefront. This is an awkward conjunction of images, but it is certainly debatable for whom it is awkward: for black readers, who might well be outraged that their participation in the European war should have any parallel whatsoever with the homefront atrocity of lynching; or for white readers, who ought, perhaps, to have misgivings about a national "war for democracy" overseas that seems so ominously similar to the most antidemocratic tendencies of American life at home, or who might have good reason to fear if, indeed, "The Jazz Birds come on sunflower wings when loathsome tyrants rise. . . ." To be sure, other lines of the poem contain the kinds of stereotyped and demeaning images--the opening evocations of the barnyard, for example--that rightly draw critical attention in "The Congo" and elsewhere. As for the final three stanzas, however, which were removed when the poem reappeared as "The Modest Jazzbird" first in Poetry magazine and then in Lindsay's collection The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language, the lynching imagery seems calculated both to make black readers uneasy with their willingness to participate in the war, and to make white readers uncomfortable with homefront racial politics as well as their vindictive was aims. This poem, raising doubts about the righteousness of the Allied effort and, at the same time, evoking the underappreciated contributions of African-Americans to the war effort, may even have been written as a kind of prank on the patriotic syndicate, The Vigilantes, for which it was written. A group numbering 200-300 writers who sent patriotic poems and editorials to newspapers across the country, gratis, throughout the war, the Vigilantes were after Lindsay's active support soon after the U.S. war declaration. "The Jazz Bird" is certainly a singular and idiosyncratic offering for a syndicate whose writers were often intolerant of racial and ethnic diversity in the United States, and Lindsay was not otherwise cooperative with the group, as is evident in a letter he wrote to Katherine Lee Bates when she wrote to encourage his greater involvement (Letters 166).
In reading "The Congo," we should further note that some of the stereotypical imagery and cultural presuppositions in Lindsay's poem that critics are fastest to label racist have clear counterparts in poetry by black Americans from the same period, including poems and poets that have seldom, if ever, been considered complicit with white racism. The Christianizing of blacks in section III of "The Congo," excoriated repeatedly by critics as a rejection of black cultural integrity, finds a close parallel in the closing lines of James Weldon Johnson's "O Black and Unknown Bards," which is almost ubiquitous in anthologies of American literature (including the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry):
You sang far better than you knew; the songs
That for your listeners' hungry hearts sufficed
Still live,--but more than this to you belongs:
You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.
The African scenes of raucous, sensuous, pagan dancing, merrymaking, conjuring, etc. that fill sections I and II of Lindsay's poem find a close equivalent in the passages of Countee Cullen's still more widely known "Heritage," which exhibit the speaker's sensual, primal attraction to a very similarly stereotyped view of Africa:
So I lie, who find no peace
Night or day, no slight release
From the unremittent beat
Made by cruel padded feet
Walking through my body's street.
Up and down they go, and back,
Treading out a jungle track.
. . . .
Like a soul gone mad with pain
I must match its weird refrain;
Ever must I twist and squirm,
Writhing like a baited worm,
While its primal measures drip
Through my body, crying, "Strip!
Doff this new exuberance.
Come and dance the Lover's Dance!"
In an old remembered way
Rain works on me night and day.
Cullen's poem marks clearly, and self-consciously, the fictiveness of this version of Africa, in ways that Lindsay never does; yet the seductiveness of the fiction grips the speaker nonetheless, and the poem does not offer an alternative version of African, or even of African-American, experience, so that the closing of the poem offers up an attitude not altogether different from "Their Basic Savagery," Lindsay's starting point in "The Congo": "Not yet has my heart or head / In the least way realized / They and I are civilized." The enigma of Cullen's ending offers, obviously, a critical and ironic distance not easily gained in Lindsay's poem. Yet in trying to locate an affirmative vision of a distinctively black experience, Cullen, like Lindsay, finds himself at an impasse.
In "Heritage" Cullen was, in fact, standing very near the fault line that separated two very different ways of thinking about literary creation in the African-American community. On the one hand, black poets working in traditional forms and considering non-racial themes (Cullen among them, in much of his poetry) were championed by W. E. B. Du Bois and an older generation of writers as being--incredibly, to our later reading--more constructively political than poets working in non-traditional forms, experimenting with jazz and blues poetry, employing black dialects, and writing on specifically black subjects. For Du Bois, poetry of this latter kind meant Paul Laurence Dunbar's dialect verse, and all the risks of white stereotyping that had come with it; the path of progress lay in race "improvement," and in art this demanded writing in ways that would enable both blacks and white to see the similarity of black aspirations and achievements to white ones. In the 1920s, at least, Du Bois's political assumptions fundamentally shaped the debate; the exponents of the more experimental, black writing like Claude McKay and Langston Hughes did not assert its superior cultural politics, as we might today, but its superior artistry--the wider range of expression possible, the greater possibilities of form and language. When Carl Van Vechten, a major promoter of black writers, published his novel Nigger Heaven in 1926, his portrayal of black Harlem was immediately attacked by political critics in the black community as a racist white performance in blackface; it was just as swiftly defended by the literary avant garde in the community as a feat of literary imagination. In this context--and among writers of the avant garde like Hughes--Vachel Lindsay's poetry on black subject matter and appropriating black voices did not appear so far out of place. Lindsay did not thus appear an inappropriate choice to be one of the judges for the 1926 Opportunity contest. Likewise, the inclusion of "The Congo" in Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps's landmark anthology, The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949, makes sense, even if it may now be jarring. Long after there was any mileage to be made of his "discovery" by Lindsay, Hughes chose to include him in the section of "Tributary Poems by Non-Negroes." "The Congo" appears, as well, in the revised edition appearing in 1970, so Bontemps, who lived to supervise the publication of this edition, apparently concurred with Hughes's choice.
The problem of racist representation that vexes Lindsay's "The Congo" is, in some measure, a more general cultural problem that bedevils black poets as well as whites. So while we can--and must, given our later historical context--call "The Congo" racist, we cannot readily dismiss the problems of black representation that the poem so pointedly raises. Racial representation in "The Congo" and in Lindsay's work generally, far from being settled issues, remain matters of critical controversy and debate. For documents from the initial exchanges between Lindsay and The Crisis, as well as a wider range of current critical approaches, see the selection of excerpts under RACE CRITICISM OF "THE CONGO."
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